I couldn't help but smile at a thread title I saw yesterday on the CD forum: "So long, crap!"

What a splendid idea. And how long have I meant to empty all these boxes in my own garage, only to have something else come up to interrupt it, over and over again? How often have I said, "This Sunday, we're going to the flea market" only to wake up Sunday morning to dark skies and downpours? How many times have I even started the project, only to be called away from...

We had visitors recently from America, who seemed very impressed with all the "green" measures we follow here. Well, it's necessary isn't it, when you're a small country with no oil source of your own, little spare room for landfills, and as for solar energy...well, let's not talk about our lack of sunshine, ok?

But our family does feed ourselves from a large kitchen garden, and as a nation we do recycle, evidenced by the often-overflowing row of bottle banks in every village....

Well, there's a dirty trick for you (says I). I'm good enough at wasting my work-time on the regular forums, without being invited to run my mouth endlessly in Blog-land.

Woooo HOOO!!


Actually, this is truly the last thing I need in my quest to be crowned Procrastination Queen; I have six (count 'em) SIX projects on my desk that need my urgent attention, but it seems that the more pressing the deadline pressure grows, the more my inspiration runs on an inverse...